Brigitte Arlé

Brigitte Arlé (she/her) is a yoga therapist and Pilates teacher currently living in Ireland. She works virtually with clients across the USA and EU. Brigitte practiced her first Sun Salutation in elementary school, and has been exploring movement and the body ever since. In 1995, Brigitte started to practice classical Pilates at the LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, as a dance major. Brigitte received her BFA in Dance from Alvin Ailey/ Fordham University in 2003. Brigitte performed professionally for over a decade touring in the US, Canada, and Europe before returning to New York where she continued her study of both Pilates & Yoga. Brigitte has over 1520+ hours of training as a yoga teacher and therapist. She holds certifications in therapeutic & restorative yoga, raja yoga, adaptive/ chair, yin, hatha, prenatal, postnatal, yoga for L&D, yoga for pelvic health, and stress management. She was certified as a yoga therapist (C-IAYT) by the Integral Yoga Therapy Program and the International Association of Yoga Therapy. Brigitte has taught in a wide array of locations including: studios, health clubs, schools, corporate and clinical settings in NYC and Boston. She has taught in non-traditional settings as the resident Pilates instructor at the NY Stock Exchange, offering yoga nidra during cesarean sections, and as yoga teacher at the Beit Jabrin Refugee Camp. Brigitte is a Nationally Certified Pilates Teacher (NCPT) who has led Contemporary Pilates and also Pelvic Health teacher trainings for professionals at various Yoga studios, Equinox, & Club Pilates locations. She was a specialized workshop presenter (Presenting on Pilates for Pelvic Organ Prolapse) at the Pilates Method Alliance International Conference & Expo in 2022. Prior to moving to Ireland, Brigitte was PT faculty in the Dance Department of Boston University offering credit and non credit mat and apparatus classes. In addition, Brigitte taught yoga & Pilates classes at Harvard University and assisted their teacher training program. In addition to teaching, Brigitte is a well seasoned full spectrum doula, CLC, & CEIM working with expectant clients in their hospitals and homes for over a decade. In 2017, Brigitte opened Rooted, a studio in downtown Boston, as a way of sharing her approach to movement, perinatal, and pelvic health. She has supported hundreds of families through their reproductive journeys, birth, and postpartum experiences both in the studio & in the labor room. During the pandemic, Brigitte shifted Rooted Boston to a virtual space called Rooted Perinatal. Rooted Perinatal continues to run as a virtual space for private sessions, workshops and professional yoga & Pilates trainings. Nothing has quite influenced her approach to teaching, or deepened her understanding of life, like her experiences as a doula. Self-advocacy, acceptance, and autonomy are important themes Brigitte aims to weaves into her client work.